29th state of the union saying she wanted to delay this annual speech because of the government shutdown. pelosi just responded in this letter that we have obtained. she says that she s writing to inform you that the house of representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the state of the union address in the house chamber until the government has opened. she has the power to do that. and that has not been done yet. he said that you invited me to come to speak on january 3rd when the shutdown was ongoing. she addresses that here in this letter. when i extended this invitation for you to deliver the state of the union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date,
january 29th, at that time there was no thought that the government would still be shutdown. shh reached out again after the shutdown would still be ongoing. they wanted to find that date after the shutdown is resolved. she makes very clear in this letter that there will be no state of the union on tuesday in the house chamber. so now the president is going to have to make a decision where to deliver this speech. will he do it somewhere else? even if he wanted to deliver it in the republican-controlled senate, that s most likely not going to happen either because they have to pass a similar resolution to do that there. they will need democratic support to do it. they will have to find a spot off capitol hill to deliver this annual address. but a remarkable episode that really demonstrates where we are on the longest government shutdown in history in which the two sides, pelosi and shoochume
how lawmakers are responding on day 28 of the government shutdown. a trip by nancy pelosi to visit nato allies became a casualty of the partial government shutdown. donald trump denied pelosi the use of military aircraft for a trip to afghanistan saying, quote, we will reschedule the 7 day excursion when the shutdown is over in light of the 800,000 great american workers not receiving pay. i m sure you would agree postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate. congress to fund your soldiers and operations abroad, understand the depth of those operations, the necessity of them and all of that was what this trip was going to do. he has been clear she would do nothing to fund the border, she will stay until it gets done. reporter: the abrupt cancellation came days after nancy pelosi suggested the president postpone his january 29th state of the union address in light of the shutdown. the gop accusing the speaker of
state of the union address not official yet so where are we tonight? trace is on the case to tell us more. the shutdown showdown highlights include the president meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers including 7 democrats, details of the meeting are thin but a few of those who attended reportedly called it productive. the president met with a group of gop senators that it appears a plan by south carolina senator lindsey graham to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations over border security continue is gaining little traction. in a letter to the president nancy pelosi called on donald trump to delay his january 29th state of the union address because the secret service and homeland security are entangled in the partial government shutdown and may not be able to secure the event but senior homeland security officials say no one from the democratic congressional leadership bothered to ask the dhs or secret service about the state
president s january 29th state of the union address before congress, it has to be postponed because of the shutdown. our colleague dana bash did a series of bad ass women of washington. nancy pelosi was one of them she profiled. she proved it today. she surprised everybody and said, because of the national because this is a national special security event, you need a lot of protection and a lot of these people are on furlough. we can t guarantee that. the president can write his address or he can do it from the oval office. we re not going to be able do it at this particular time unless the government is reopened. of course, the department of ho homeland security she quoted kirstjen nielsen on it. they said, no, no, no, we re fine. we can do it. as did the secret service. pelosi hasn t budged. she called it a housekeeping matter. she said this is just a housekeeping matter.